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Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility, Proving Trolls Wrong (www.phoronix.com)
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Sylvestre Ledru who serves as the lead developer of the uutils project for the Rust Coreutils implementation presented at FOSDEM 2026 this weekend on this initiative. Ledru has spoken at FOSDEM in prior years on Rust Coreutils and this year's talk focused primarily on Ubuntu 25.10's adoption of it in place of GNU Coreutils.

Ledru's presentation covered the progress made on Rust Coreutils in recent times and Ubuntu 25.10's uptake of Rust Coreutils and continuing that for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. While some bugs have been found as a result of it, they have been fixed rather quickly. Ledru's presentation also points out some of the popular trolling around Rust Coreutils and ultimately how many of those commenters have been proven wrong

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[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It is trolling when it broke production level systems?

To be fair im NOT blaming the rust util team. I hope the best for them. But it was a bad decision to use something like that to power systems before it was fully tested and ready. It broke many different things in prod at work and we had to switch over to another distro entirely. Which was a lot of work. It made us stop using Ubuntu which is a shame.

[-] bluGill@fedia.io -2 points 1 month ago

What broke? If it was a GNU ism that wouldn't work on *BSD either, than it is your own stupid fault. There are other linux distros that also don't use the gnu core utils that would break things do.

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] fruitcantfly@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

sudo-rs is a different project than uutils

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You know what that is fair. While the change did temp kill our projects it was a combo of things.

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